Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove from individual possession or ownership; throw off or aside; get rid of.
- Specifically To sever or separate, as an appropriation; withdraw from an appropriate use.
- To deprive of appropriated property, as a church; exclude or debar from possession.
- Deprived of appropriation; not possessing appropriated church property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
- transitive verb To release from individual ownership or possession.
- transitive verb (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
remove something that has beenallocated tosomeone ; often toreassign it elsewhere.
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Examples
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As Robert Naylor argues, it is the non-comprehension of property in the Western sense that allows George and his family to become tools in a scheme that eventually will disappropriate them.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Mr. Beck, in his judgment, says: "The ultimatum is grossly unreasonable and disappropriate to any grievance that Austria had."
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The truth is, personal judgment flows from what constitutes man a rational being, and there is no power under heaven that can alienate personal judgment from man, nor can man, if he would, disappropriate it.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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